Album of Meadow Mountain Trail Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Larry McTigue from a 28 July 2013 spider collecting trip to the first part of Meadow Mountain Trail, north of the White Chuck River, Snohomish County, Washington. After picking up our pitfall traps from the Sloan Creek trip, we sought in vain for a good place to set some more. Giving up, Larry went hiking while I collected in a seemingly ordinary area – only to get the first state record for Dipoena malkini, though getting a full sample was hard work.
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lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington on 1998 aerial photo White Chuck River on our way to lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Old road, now a trail, shown in red      (USGS, 1998) White Chuck River        © Rod Crawford
Pugh Mountain from lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington White Chuck Mountain from White Chuck River, Snohomish County, Washington
Pugh Mountain sighted from trail          © Larry McTigue White Chuck Mountain, passed on our way          © Larry McTigue
trailhead sign, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington roadside verge habitat at trailhead, Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Trailhead sign     © Rod Crawford Semi-productive roadside verge habitat          © Rod Crawford
old growth western hemlock trunk, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington old road has become lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Old growth western hemlock trunk      © Rod Crawford The trail still looks like a road            © Rod Crawford
blue huckleberries, Vaccinium sp., lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington distant view of vine maple "meadow", lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Delicious blue huckleberries       © Rod Crawford What manner of meadow is this?         © Rod Crawford
vine maple Acer circinatum thicket disguised as meadow, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington diverse herb-fern understory, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
That's no meadow, it's a vine maple thicket      © Rod Crawford Diverse understory of the old growth grove            © Rod Crawford
lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington alder and vine maple "meadow", lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Now it looks like a trail        © Rod Crawford Alders above the vine maple          © Rod Crawford
red huckleberry Vaccinium parvifolium, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington view of Jumbo Mountain from Darrington, Snohomish County, Washington
Red huckleberries, even tastier          © Rod Crawford Jumbo Mountain seen from Darrington         © Rod Crawford
closeup of western hemlock needles Tsuga heterophyllla, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington western hemlock foliage Tsuga heterophylla, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Western hemlock foliage…          © Rod Crawford …was a major habitat for me              © Rod Crawford
fly accidentally photographed at Crystal Lake, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington Crystal Lake, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington
Larry's camera auto-focused on this fly as he aimed at the lake
         © Larry McTigue
But Larry actually made it to Crystal Lake              © Larry McTigue
talus rock habitat, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington Whitehorse Mountain seen from Darrington, Snohomish County, Washington
Rockpile didn't realize its promise as spider habitat  © Rod Crawford Whitehorse Mountain seen from Darrington             © Rod Crawford
salal habitat, lower Meadow Mountain Trail, Snohomish County, Washington sunset east of Arlington, Washington on 28 July 2013
Salal didn't yield too much either      © Rod Crawford Sun sets as we approach Arlington               © Rod Crawford


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